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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would marry her.
(b) He would rather marry his own brother.
(c) He would rather die than marry her.
(d) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.

2. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her mother told them.
(b) Her new husband told them.
(c) Her father told them.
(d) She told them.

3. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?
(a) She knows how to cure his rheumatism.
(b) She has a well-paying job for him.
(c) She has been saying terrible things about him.
(d) She wants to marry him.

4. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?
(a) He understands why she cannot marry him.
(b) He feels honored to have had her love at all.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He feels betrayed.

5. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?
(a) Rest on the beach.
(b) Lay in his bed.
(c) Drink till dawn.
(d) Sob in the dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?

2. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

3. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

4. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?

5. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

2. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

3. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

4. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

5. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

6. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

7. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

8. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

9. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

10. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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